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Romney’s ad comes in the wake of a storm of controversy over whether current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been invited to speak at Columbia University while in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly...
...spokesperson for the Romney campaign said that the ad, which criticizes Khatami’s support of the terrorist group Hezbollah and his reported persecution of Jews and Christians, is aimed at highlighting Romney’s record on human rights...
David R. Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School, said that he believes the ad will boost Romney’s chances in the Republican primary...
There is, of course, no way to know if the ad is real. It may have been a crass joke, or an attempt to embarrass final clubs by depicting a blatantly racist, classist, and misogynist member. Yet on email lists and around dinner tables, students wondered whether or not the ad was real. And, somewhat surprisingly, a near unanimity of 14 final club members, both male and female, with whom I spoke, said that they could imagine a Harvard senior writing the post in earnest...
Still, when something awful surfaces, like this Craigslist post, we wonder—as we should. More than anything else, discussing this ad will hopefully erode the communal pride that prevents us from recognizing discrimination in its many forms at Harvard, both inside and outside of final clubs. While final club dating protocol may be an extreme example, its outlandishness does not excuse forms of bigotry that are less “harsh” or conspicuous...